1350 5 5
|
In an authentic Irish pub in Las Vegas where over much crowd noise the three of us are discussing Yeats, Joyce and Lady Gregory. We’re in an Irish pub after all, plus the fact we’re literature profs attending a Vegas academic conference.
|
135044
|
So for now, let the snow fall, but
let it fall gently,
each flake as a soft piano note
|
135062
|
We’re going to talk about our future like the Rick Dees Weekly Top 40. Like there are 40 great songs this week about our future.
|
135074
|
(2:56 a.m.): "Hi it's Charlie it's Pat at 4:00 in the morning my time. I just wanna tell you that I wouldn't mind getting him in bed with you the rest of my life."
|
135000
|
“I”, fuck it. I, I, I, I. It has always only been about me, this voice of mine, indivisibly me. selfishly and pompously. I shall not dispense with the false pleasantries other writers will offer, those writers that say, “Reader, look here, look at the…
|
135011
|
Pen or sword? Pick one/choose your battles carefully/for the paths oppose
|
135051
|
Darkness was fast approaching. I stuck out my tongue at Naya, and she reached out as if to grab…
|
135032
|
Mother told me that I would go to the moon. But she did not tell me that on Diwali night, the moon hid himself on the other side of the sky.
|
135032
|
The girls of spring, they’ll stop your heart
When they forsake cosmetic art
They practiced back when skies were grey
and clouds obscured the light of day.
|
1349106
|
gravel coughing up tires at 90 miles an hour
and just getting under way
|
134920
|
When they tell you to choose your last meal, it probably hasn't dawned on you yet.
|
134900
|
“We are NOT starving!” I stated emphatically. “What ever gave you the idea that you are starving? Honestly, Annie, you are so melodramatic. You have food in front of you right now, don’t you?’ I said pointing to her plate of potatoes and so
|
134932
|
A young boy, breathing heavily from running, stopped at her feet, barely able to speak,
|
134990
|
Sit right down in the chair. It's a glider, see? Smooth and easy movement without that annoying head-swing you get from a rocker. And easy to get out of, unlike a lounge chair. Relax. "Reba" reruns will be coming on in a minute.
|
134900
|
I was sleeping in a pile of teenage bodies soft limb spread over soft thin limb.
|
134984
|
It was cold and clammy, but then it got worse. Far worse. Any opportunity to celebrate the unity and harmony of tolerance was soon cancelled.
|
1349165
|
Hey, Y'all! Like I told y'all, I checked myself into this what you call a “ facebook Rehab Clinic” up here just about 40 miles outside of Kalispell, Montana in a little town called Gulag. I quit MySpace and that got me a reduced rate. Things are…
|
134900
|
It is easy to look out on the Bowery and say, "There are the bums." Encountering one, however, even one who asks to "bum a quarter" or tells you he's "on the bum" the word "bum" slips away in one's mind...
|
134975
|
|
134921
|
Life to her had come to resemble one of those mazes you find in a puzzle book, inscrutable except by those with exceptional IQs. Mary would run her pencil down one path in search of the passage that might penetrate to the exit, then another, but the paths
|
1349117
|
|
134923
|
say no / to me / and devastate me / and I will take it / as god's will / to drown me / in a vat / of my own / entrails
|
1349135
|
The year begins well here
with much needed rain
and tee-shirt temperatures.
|
134977
|
She tossed the big bird into the air. It wobbled, then flew away.
|
134832
|
[VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.]
|
134832
|
I am not responsible for any nightmares this piece may cause for all you mice lovers!
|
134840
|
No one commented on her altered appearance, although Will in Accounts said he quite liked her hair like that, so she assumed that no one could see the snakes. But she still felt self-conscious, exposed. She had to remember not to talk to them when she was…
|
134854
|
The cellar smelled like an aroused muskrat.
|
134822
|
At a candlelit table near the back of the restaurant, Jack and Lois greeted the waiter as he delivered their drinks, a diet coke for him, and for her, a vodka and cranberry. He apologized for the slow bar service and promised to return in a moment to take their…
|
134852
|
We talk of his time in the jungle.
|
